Dear Dr.King,

Your famous “I have a dream speech” has inspired others throughout history to stand up against what they believe is wrong and in that case that would be racism.  Racism throughout history has affected many lives of the black community because either they would be treated unfairly or they would have been killed.  I believe that your use of repetition of “let freedom ring”, (pg. 408) has an affect on not only the black community but every who supported them throughout the way they where mistreated because you believed that if in the future you can spread freedom to one place to another then everyone will understand what it means to be free.  You also use a metaphor of saying “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain…” (pg. 407), and this metaphor symbolizes that you don’t give on the dream because you believe in the future that black folks would be able to work just as fairly as everyone else would.

In “letter from Birmingham Jail” instead having the dream that you believed would happen in the future, you live the nightmare of what is to possibly be of the future.  In Birmingham you experience what its like to live completely in a segregated life.  you once said in order to be treated fairly, you must not fight with violence but after being in Birmingham, you then realize that violence would be the only way to send a strong message.